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• Re: Friday- traffic
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:37:29 +0000
  ...And, no, I probably would not volunteer to be a pedestrian. Stephen On Friday, February 27, 2015 7:02 AM, ed donnen <spliced.surprise...
• Re: sheer bolts/steering column
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:06:49 -0400
  ...This apparently lowers the risk of head injuries to the pedestrian significantly. The idea works; the only problem now is developing the proper sensors...
• Re: Friday- traffic
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:51:28 -0500
  ...I think. > > Volunteers for pedestrian? > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Johmxw3cspA > > ed- 91 DoKa, Not with my DoKa you don't >
• I see VW vans everywhere (Friday)
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:15:22 -0800
  Do you? It's a disease: http://seattle.curbed.com/archives/2016/01/cornerspotted-westlake-pedestrian -mall-in-1965.php
• Friday- traffic
  Historical mailing list - ed donnen
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:02:20 -0500
  ...Volunteers for pedestrian? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Johmxw3cspA ed- 91 DoKa, Not with my DoKa you don't
• A Close Shave - paint required near Munich!
  Historical mailing list - Richard Lumb
  Fri, 24 Jan 1997 19:33:41 +0200
  ...all those carefully accumulated VW links :-( and then had to swerve to miss 2 pedestrians running down the (very narrow, no pedestrians HA! HA...
• Re: Was!! now that it's Friday! Now: Rant!!
  Historical mailing list - John Rodger
  Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:09:37 -0500
  ...Put cars, bikes, and > pedestrian (runners and walkers) together and it's a fatal mix. It just > galls my butt that so little consideration...
• Re: COACH question
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:40:36 +1300
  ...Some ornament the van picked up at a pedestrian crossing near a sports stadium?
• Enforcers (friday)
  Historical mailing list - ed donnen
  Fri, 9 Nov 2012 18:16:03 -0500
  ...When I was there as a pedestrian trying to cross the street at an intersection, I couldn't. The traffic light seemed to be...
• Re: Headlight upgrades
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:21:07 -0800
  ...We're talking 2 lane roads, 35-50mph speed limit and frequent deer, bicyclists, and pedestrians when I'm driving to/from work. Bicyclists...
• Re: Backfiring
  Historical mailing list - Gary Schmidt
  Wed, 31 Aug 1994 19:02:12 -0500 (CDT)
  ...problems, or should I just relax and > enjoy scaring the occasional pedestrian?? > Could be an exhaust leak. Backfiring is not good for your valves...
• Re: Garbage email and acceleration
  Historical mailing list - Bill Marshall
  Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:59:08 EDT
  ...bus you come across! You may even beat out some cyclists. Pedestrians are a snap! You may even beat out Stan in an air...
• Re: Things that irk me on my vanagon, and GAS PRICES, now that it's Friday!
  Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter / Iowa City, Iowa
  Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:58:50 -0600
  ...I'm not suggesting that cyclists and drivers (and surely pedestrians for that matter) shouldn't operate defensively--I'm just saying the risk...
• Backfiring
  Historical mailing list - JERRY HULL
  Wed, 31 Aug 1994 14:44:40 PST8PDT
  ...Is this indicative of any impending problems, or should I just relax and enjoy scaring the occasional pedestrian?? BTW, I've about given up...
• Re: Things getting desperate in Rhode Island...
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:10:13 -0400
  ...In the State of Maine the greeting to a pedestrian is (or was) to lift one index finger on the steering wheel, and the...
• toot-toot...update on my van's horn
  Historical mailing list - Mariposa Charme
  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:01:19 -0600
  ...Got it to work...t'was a short! Horra, now I can beeb beeb my neighbours, and the odd wandering bunny, pedestrian or bear...
• Re: Our Trip Report
  Historical mailing list - t bill
  Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:38:22 -0700
  ...TBill 83.5 Westy Ft Worth (for sale) ***Two kinds of pedestrians, 1.Quick 2. Dead*** _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com...
• Re: Was!! now that it's Friday! Now: Rant!!
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:35:54 -0600
  ...My complaint, among many, is that there is absolutely NO planning for any pedestrian traffic anywhere. The streets and roads are constructed with no...
• Re: Count the Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - ed donnen
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:46:36 -0500
  ...To cross a street as a pedestrian you had to find a group of people and then SLOWLY march across as a phalanx behaving...
• Re: Headlight upgrades
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:56:15 -0500
  ...We're talking 2 lane roads, 35-50mph speed limit and frequent deer, bicyclists, and pedestrians when I'm driving to/from work. Bicyclists...
• Re: Was!! now that it's Friday! Now: Rant!!
  Historical mailing list - Daniel L. Katz
  Sat, 28 Feb 2004 03:22:32 -0500
  ...It really is ruining the area. > >My complaint, among many, is that there is absolutely NO planning for >any pedestrian traffic anywhere. The streets...
• Re: Backfiring
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Wed, 31 Aug 94 15:05:24 PDT
  ...problems, or should I just relax and > enjoy scaring the occasional pedestrian?? Checked your valves lately? I think it might be a sign of...
• Re: Headlight upgrades
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:57:19 -0500
  ...We're talking 2 lane roads, 35-50mph speed limit and frequent deer, bicyclists, and pedestrians when I'm driving to/from work. Bicyclists...
• Bug washer jets on the Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:54:46 -0700
  ...So, unless you want to wash the windshields of neighboring cars or use pedestrians as targets, I'd approach this modification with caution. regards...
• Horn Trouble
  Historical mailing list - PSavage
  Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:51:11 -0800
  ...I keep having to signal apology/bewilderment to other motorists/pedestrians. I cannot disconnect the horn--will *need* it badly south of the border...
• Re: Things getting desperate in Rhode Island...
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:17:10 -0700
  ...NET> wrote: > In the State of Maine the greeting to a pedestrian is (or was) to > lift one index finger on the steering wheel...
• Re: toot-toot...update on my van's horn
  Historical mailing list - mike
  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:02:26 -0700
  ...I can beeb beeb my neighbours, and the odd wandering bunny, > pedestrian or bear in my way! > > Next projet: gas throttle. not so fun...
• squealing front brakes - angle grind?
  Historical mailing list - Matt Ratto
  Thu, 29 May 2003 15:05:55 -0700
  ...It's scaring the hell out of pedestrians. Matt ------------------------------------- Matt Ratto Ph.D. Candidate University of California, San Diego mratto@ucsd.edu http://communication...
• (O.T.) Sizzlin' Suzuki . . .
  Historical mailing list - Antaki
  Thu, 5 Oct 2000 23:12:41 -0700
  ...This car has a lot of potential hidden in it's pedestrian sheetmetal. First, the engine can be modified for a lot more power...
• Re: Was!! now that it's Friday! Now: Rant!!
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:08:43 -0500
  ...It really is ruining the area. > >My complaint, among many, is that there is absolutely NO planning for >any pedestrian traffic anywhere. The streets...
• Re: Bush Bars from South Afrika-Vendors?
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:55:33 -0700
  ...these things anyway, but maybe I'd get more respect--from pedestrians at least! Matthew Pollard wrote: > > stuart, check out www.vanagain.com Ken...
• Re: Friday- When It's not your time....
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
  Fri, 4 Apr 2014 18:11:34 -0700
  ...The pedestrian close calls scared me more than anything. In the Navy we called it situational awareness. �Lots of that lacking in this video...
• Re: Horn
  Historical mailing list - Trina Lindal
  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:22:47 -0700
  ...Scared the sh*t out of some dumb darting pedestrians and a few folks who thought they could cut off a Vanagon. Nobody expects...
• NVC - Fryeday - Across Paris in under 9 Minutes!!!
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:56:48 -0500
  ...In the full screen version of the film you can see pedestrians, pidgeons and other cars dodging the Ferrari. It took the Ferrari just...
• Tuesday funnies
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 10 Jan 1995 10:16:54 -0800
  ...A pedestrian hit me and went under my car. To avoid hitting the bumper of the car in front, I struck a pedestrian. I...
• Re: horn whacky again
  Historical mailing list - Johnny DeVilla
  Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:39:30 -0700
  ...It tends to do a nice little friendly beep when I make right hand turns in a busy pedestrian zone. Johnny 81 Westy On...
• Re: Best Car Alarm?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stratton
  Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:19:29 -0500
  ...Fortunately, the pedestrian harassment module is only an option. For a couple of hundred bucks, my local car audio place (who sold me my...
• Re: What Is In A Name?/NOT MUCH!
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:17:48 EST
  ...Why do people try to add some sort of cachet to something as inanimately pedestrian as a car by giving it a name? Wait...
• Re: Opinion on Long Trip w/young driver to Florida from Texas
  Historical mailing list - pdooley
  Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:52:54 -0500
  ...God forbid the kid or one of his friends ran over a pedestrian while in Florida. The lawyers would be knocking on your door...
• Re: [Syncro] Re: Posted Pics of Driveshaft "Piston" and SA Bushing
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:23:20 EDT
  ...As pedestrian as it is, it is still amazing what a little dab of the right grease in the right place can do for...
• Re: Beer Survey absolutely no mention of VW anywhere. just beer.
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:32:10 EDT
  ...Ice. >> Kelly & all-- I'm with you on the Miller Ice/pedestrian beer. That's why I drink Plank Road's Icehouse. Truth be...
• Re: Letting someone take your car for a test drive - read this
  Historical mailing list - M.R. Nimmo
  Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:17:18 -0700
  ...But if the idiot kid struck another car or some pedestrian, you'd definitely like to have his insurance responsible, either fully or partially...
• Re: Bug washer jets on the Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Tony Demille
  Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:35:11 -0600
  ...you want to wash the windshields of neighboring cars or use > pedestrians as targets, I'd approach this modification with caution. > > > regards, > > Todd > > '88...
• Re: why I don't have a Subaru...
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 4 Jan 1996 08:23:40 -0800
  ...It would often backfire when shifting between first and second, and send pedestrians running for cover. On cold, wet days, the throttle linkage would...
• Re: I'll bite on the diesel---safety and getting flipped off
  Historical mailing list - don spence
  Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:30:49 -0700
  ...I found that people would prefer pulling out or with pedestrians, walking out in front of the truck. Doesn't make any sense. TR...
• Re: Headlight upgrades
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 23 Jan 2016 12:41:35 +0000
  ...We're > talking 2 lane roads, 35-50mph speed limit and frequent deer, bicyclists, > and pedestrians when I'm driving to/from work. Bicyclists...
• looking for a 1980s Vanagon to rent in the Bronx
  Historical mailing list - Daniel O Stevens
  Mon, 9 Dec 2013 20:41:54 +0000
  ...I found you guys on Google, I�m looking for a 1980s Vanagon to use in a pedestrian accident reenactment in the Bronx across...
• Re: How safe is it?
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:15:58 -0500
  ...a funny comedy, if you don't mind a lot of pedestrians getting killed and a really really really stupid 'plot'. and some really...
• Re: re drafting big rig
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:15:29 -0500
  ...I almost hit a guy once when he zipped across the street at a good clip, through a stop sign, using the pedestrian crossing...
• Re: Would it be insane...
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:50:23 -0400
  ...3>Have it flap the hatch when the backup lights come on to shoo unseen pedestrians... 4>Make that huge hatch fan you during...
• Re: 90 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Tue, 11 Apr 95 13:36:10 CDT
  ...scared the hell outa pedestrians. :) it was like it had only one speed, and that was high speed. the dealer never did care to...
• Re: Bentley cost?
  Historical mailing list - Berry Kercheval
  Tue, 13 Jun 1995 10:09:30 PDT
  ...They are trimmed to just as high level as the more sedate, pedestrian Rollers, and go faster too. Mine? I have a '51 Mark...
• Re: Best Car Alarm?
  Historical mailing list - David Bogle
  Mon, 8 Feb 1999 21:49:52 -0500
  ...The first squawk happens when diesels roll by, or parking bumps occur, or pedestrians lean against your bus. However, you can set the sensitivity...
• Re: Boston Camping - One More Time
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:11:59 -0800
  ...8.) Pedestrians with guns count double in the scoring. 9.) Stay off the Cntral Expressway. The 128 loop is longer but is much faster...
• Re: Anyone upgraded the horn?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:16:54 -0800
  ...S-class uses 3 horns, two facing front and one under the right front fender for pedestrians. I wired them using relays. Oh, what...
• Re: Yet another classic VW van announcement
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:01:54 -1000
  in modern times consideration must be taken for hitting pedestrians .. it affects the shape of the nose of cars in about the last 4...
• Re: New York State Motor Smoker Law
  Historical mailing list - Larry L. Bissell
  Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:43:08 -0700
  ...Late tuesday afternoon I crossed the same intersection within the white pedestrian markings. There was a fellow who was stopped at the edge of...
• Re: Crossing the Border the easy way
  Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter
  Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:29:50 -0600
  ...Cars stop for pedestrians--what a concept! _____ Donald Baxter Iowa City, Iowa (319) 337-0494 www.mindspring.com/~onanov -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing...
• Fw: Re: Vanagons and part
  Historical mailing list - bstokes4
  Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:55:16 -0400
  ...My pedestrian point of view leads me to believe that there may be a little hyperbole here since there are at least a dozen...
• Re: GPS recommendations, handheld & incar?
  Historical mailing list - Ed
  Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:16:51 -0700
  ...Has a pedestrian mode so you can use it on foot, an off-road mode as well for use in different situations including navigating...